ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume XXXVI, Issue 5073, 10 December 1881, Page 2

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

[RENTER'S TEXEOBAMS/l LONDON, December 7. Arrived—Ship St. Leonarda, from Lyttelton. As th c ship Fareora, bound for Auckland, was in the Downs she was obliged to slip her anchors in order to avoid collision with another vessel, by whom she would inevitably have been run down. She was towed back to the Thames for fresh anchors. The owner of the tug has claimed £5000 salvage money. The Pareora has since sailed again for Auckland. Consols have advanced £to 99j. New Zealand securities and [colonial breadstuffs remain at yesterday's quotations. Australian tallow has advanced Is per per cwt. Best beef is quoted at ,38s 6d, and best mutton at 41s 6d. At to-day's wool auction 9800 bales were catalogued, and a fair demand was again experienced for the various lots offered. Sir Samuel Wilson, of Victoria, the defeated candidate for Londonderry, threatens to petition against the election of Mr Porter, Q. 0., the newly-appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland, on the ground that he used indirect means of bribery to gain the seat. The Government has invited 1000 men of the army reserve or retired policemen to volunteer for special protection duty in Ireland as Irish police. A severe storm, accompanied with heavy thunder and lightning, was experienced here yesterday, during which two persons were struck by lightning, and killed instantaneously. December 8. Mr Parnell, who is confined in Kilmainham gaol, is reported to be ill.